Carole Nelson Douglas

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Ground-breaking band Black & White was platinum before it imploded from an overdose of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll years ago. Now, the Las Vegas reunion show revives the old troubles between its two divas, and efforts to sabotage end in murder. Petite PR powerhouse Temple Barr and her faithful fe...

“Fabulous!”—SHERRILYN KENYON, NYT bestselling author of the Dark Hunter series on Dancing with Werewolves.
For the first time! All six Delilah Street urban fantasy stories and novellas in one collection, including the never-before published “Film Noir” with classic film star Cary Grant. ...

(Previously published as CATNAP)
The first Midnight Louie mystery, now in eBook, offers publishing industry exposé. When Temple Barr, five-feet-zero of feisty redhead, goes in hot pursuit of a stray black cat streaking through a publishing convention exhibit hall, she stumbles over a big-time NY...

Carole Nelson Douglas's Cat in an Alien X-Ray takes the Las Vegas gang on a science-fictional roller-coaster ride, as Midnight Louie, feline PI, and company encounter UFO enthusiasts, conspiracy nuts who are too bizarre even for tin foil hat therapy. An Area 51 attraction on the Strip threatens to ...

“Carole Nelson Douglas has more than earned her niche in the mystery hall of fame with this timeless classic.”—RT Book Reviews(Previously published without the Doyle story and Readers Guide as Irene at Large.)When a savage-looking man in Oriental garb collapses at the feet of Miss Penelope Hu...

In Carole Nelson Douglas' Cat in a White Tie and Tails, Midnight Louie goes along as chaperone when PR whiz Temple Barr and her fiance, rising media star Matt Devine, head to Chicago so she can meet his family. Matt's mother has a tragic past primed to rise and bite anybody in reach, even the ex-al...

Fall under the intoxicating spell of their hex appeal…
In the magical world that lies hidden beneath our own, witches and conjurers play deadly games. They know just the right spell to kill a man with one kiss -- or raise him back again. And they’re not afraid to exact sweet revenge on ...

She’s Like a Virgin .... Simulated for the Very First Time
For a red-blooded male, Las Vegas offers a virtual smorgasbord of temptation: sexy showgirls, vampy vampires, zombie starlets, you name it. But paranormal investigator Delilah Street isn’t worried about losing her man to these vixen...

Temple Barr is an ace P.R. wizard when it comes to promoting Las Vegas' hottest clients. She's also an amateur sleuth who has caught her share of bad guys.
B-movie actress Savannah Ashleigh begs Temple to investigate the suspicious death of her rich aunt's handyman. Temple happily takes the cas...

Chicks are awesome -- and never more so than when they are kicking some serious vampire/werewolf/demon/monster butt.
Chicks Kick Butt is an anthology that features one of the best things about the urban fantasy genre: strong, independent, and intelligent heroines who are quite capable of solving...

ZOMBIES AND WITCHES AND VAMPS...OH, MY!
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas -- at least that's Delilah Street's hope. With Sin City's vampire and werewolf mobs wanting to cash in her chips once and for all, she's retreating with her partner Ric Montoya and half-wolfhound Quicksilver to her Kansas...

Temple Barr, publicist extraordinaire, is itching to bring off her most dangerous and exciting assignment, helping to launch an endeavor that many a Vegas showmen have dreamed of: a Las Vegas mob museum/casino.
While city powers-that-be hem and haw over doing an official project on the subject, ...

WHEN THE STAKES ARE DEAD -- OR UNDEAD
Werewolf mobsters and vampires run Vegas, but that's yesterday's news for Delilah Street, paranormal investigator. What's truly fearsome is her bloody discovery of an undead evil rooted in ancient Egypt. Now, with her lover Ric fighting for life after a gr...

Zorro... The Return of the Original Masked Avenger For more than eight-seven years, Zorro has entertained and thrilled audiences around the world. Now, fans of the original masked avenger can enjoy this second volume of tales filled with danger, romance, and intrigue, thrilling to the further expl...

Las Vegas PR hotshot Temple Barr is promoting a weeklong televised charity event, Dancing with the Celebs. The feisty redhead has got the perfect celebrity for the show: her handsome fiancé, Matt Devine, a successful radio talk-show host. But while ex-priest Matt struggles to master the sexy moves...

All-new from the top names in mystery and fantasy? including a never-beforepublished Sookie Stackhouse story from Charlaine Harris!
This follow-up to Powers of Detection showcases bestselling and award-winning names from Simon Green to Laurie King to Sharon Shinn?with original stories featuring ...

Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator
An abandoned infant named for the street where she was found, Delilah will turn wicked 2013 Las Vegas upside down to find the double, twin, or clone she saw autopsied on the latest incarnation of CSI V...dead or alive.
Hot Men, Chilling Powers
Sexy ex-FBI gu...

Las Vegas PR honcho Temple Barr is happily looking forward to her beloved aunt Kit's wedding to Aldo Fontana, a silver-tongued reputed ex-mobster with a heart of gold. Things go disastrously wrong when the entire bachelor party is hijacked and taken to a remote desert ranch where the women are wild...

It was the revelation of the millennium: witches, werewolves, vampires and other supernaturals are real. Fast-forward 13 years: TV reporter Delilah Street used to cover the small-town bogeyman beat back in Kansas, but now, in high-octane Las Vegas - which is run by a werewolf mob - she finds hersel...

Cat in a Red Hot Rage is the nineteenth title in Carole Nelson Douglas's sassy Midnight Louie mystery series. This tough talking twenty-pound tomcat PI is playing at the top of his game as he walks the walk and talks the talk on the mean streets of Las Vegas.
Temple Barr and Midnight Louie are up ...

What's a Girl to do when she's forced to be, well, a girl?That's what's hot shot freelance PR woman and amateur detective Temple Barr has to do when as a favor to top cop Carmen Molina she goes undercover at Teen Queen, the newest pop star-search reality TV show, all in the hopes of protecting Moli...

They're cute... they're cuddly... they're on the case.
We all know that the most innocent-looking pets can commit a lot of unexpected mischief. But they can also have a talent for sniffing out two-legged troublemakers of a more dangerous kind.
Featuring a lovable cast of crime-solving canines...

Opera singer. Adventuress. American abroad. Irene Adler is all of this ... and is also the only woman to ever have outwitted the great man, Sherlock Holmes.
After numerous adventures Irene has finally come home, not out of loyalty to her native shores but because of a baffling puzzle, and the o...

Temple Barr is a sharp and sassy public relations ace in Las Vegas whose life is finally looking up. Nobody is trying to steal her boyfriend, kill strippers, resurrect Elvis, or ruin her business, and no one she knows has been murdered--at least, not in the last few weeks.
What's a girl to do wi...

CLAUDIA BISHOP AND DEAN JAMES
invite you to dine in. There's murder on the menu...
Main Course: Sixteen short stories
Side Dishes: Sixteen all -- new recipes and author interviews
Sink your teeth into these delicacies from today's masters of mystery -- sixteen slices of life and death, pepp...

The plot Dickens...
In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the class system and the violence that erupted between r...

Diva/detective Irene Adler and her bridegroom, handsome barrister Godfrey Norton, are honeymooning in Paris when they become embroiled in an investigation: a drowned sailor's body has been recovered from the Seine, and on his chest is a tattoo. A tattoo like one Irene once saw in London -- on anoth...

Irene Adler is the only woman to ever have outwitted Sherlock Holmes... and the one who has come closest to stealing his heart. She has competed (and sometimes cooperated) with the famous fictional detective over six popular and acclaimed novels, featuring her daring investigations across the Conti...

The lavish hotels and the sham of wholesome fun in American's sin capital Las Vegas may soothe the tourists, but sex and greed still fuel this town, and bad guys still abound. And Midnight Louie, the feline Sam Spade, has his paws full keeping those he loves safe.
This time Midnight Louie treads...

Irene Adler is the only woman ever to have outwitted Sherlock Holmes in A Scandal in Bohemia; she is as much at home with a spyglass and revolver than with haute couture and gala balls. Her adventures are the stuff of legend, for she has faced down sinister spies, thwarted plots against nations, an...

The tradition of pets in the White House goes all the way back to the Founding Fathers. From the parrot and foxhounds of George Washington to Spot and Barney, the current canines of the Bushes, the First Family's animal companions have always had a special place in America's heart.These various (an...

Midnight Louie, black cat detective, is hunting a mysterious organization of renegade magicians called the Synth. In this, the fourteenth Midnight Louie mystery, Louie's daughter Midnight Louise--and some of her friends--join the nations number-one cat sleuth as he trails a Synth illusionist and he...

IRENE ADLER RETURNS
Before Caleb Carr and Laurie R. King, Carole Nelson Douglas gave readers a compelling look into Victoriana with a bold new detective character: Irene Adler, the only woman to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes. An operatic diva and the intellectual equal of most of the men she encou...

Murder shows its teeth and claws for Midnight Louie readers when the jet-black feline sleuth who thinks he's Sam Spade returns to delight his legions of fans. This time, not only does Louie have to bail out his favorite investigative partner, public relations woman Temple Barr, but he has to save a...

Midnight Louie, the purring P.I., is a jet-black sleuth making his twelfth outing in Carole Nelson Douglas's Cat in a Kiwi Con. While his human partner, public relations whiz Temple Barr, and her significant other, ex-magician Max Kinsella, are bespelled by murder most magical on a Las Vegas univer...

Midnight Louie, jet-black sleuth with an attitude, is on the prowl again--and this time to a rock 'n' roll soundtrack. Louie's human partner, Temple Barr, learns that the remodeling of a local hotel is being held up by a ghost--and no ordinary ghost at that. In fact, the workmen swear it's none oth...

At the Blue Dahlia, the forties-style music club where homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina moonlights as a torch singer, life is becoming considerably less easygoing. An unidentified woman is found dead in the parking lot, with the words "she left" spray-painted nearby. Soon, another victim is found ...

Midnight Louie is the savvy black tomcat who stars in his very own series by Carole Nelson Douglas. One tough hombre, he knows the score and always gets his man . . . or rat. Louie's hot on a new case-a whole bunch in fact, in Midnight Louie's Pet Detectives. He's pulled together stories of mystery...

A GOOD MYSTERY IS TIMELESS
Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, bestselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -- featuring even more never-before-published historical mysteries by award-winning British and American writers...

Back in Las Vegas after a holiday trip to the big apple, feline detective Midnight Louie witnesses death on the Nile when the battling Egyptian barges outside the Oasis hotel bring a dead body to the surface. The soggy victim is well known to Louie's redheaded, high-heeled human companion, Temple B...

That rough-and-tumble black tomcat Midnight Louie and his flame haired human companion Temple Barr are looking forward to a Christmas vacation spent in the Big Apple. But there's more than merriment to be found in New York City--there's a murder to be solved, and Louie's' on the move. When an ad ag...

That rough-and-tumble black tomcat Midnight Louie and his flame-haired human companion, temple barr, think shooting a cat food commercial will allow them to play hooky from mayhem. But life is never easy for the vivacious pair, and Temple and Louie are center stage when beloved comic actor (and not...

Midnight Louie makes a magical appearance!
Our furry feline friend has dipped his paws into the muddy waters of murder once again--only this time, nothing is as it seems.
Temple Barr, a redheaded public relations expert and Louie's human partner, won't be trick-or-treating this Halloween Eve:...

MIDNIGHT LOUIE IS BACK!
...along with the human the black tomcat condescends to spend his days with: Temple Barr, a redheaded publicist whose love for expensive shoes is matched only by her affinity for trouble.
This time trouble shows up on her doorstep, in the form of a boyfriend previously g...

Midnight Louie, the best tomcat in the crime-solving business, and his human partner, petite redheaded publicist Temple Barr, are once again in the thick of things in the city of sin. The manager of the Crystal Phoenix, one of Las Vegas's premier vacation spot, has hired Temple Barr to help clean u...

A Macy's window dresser finds herself altering more than store displays for Christmas when she is transported back to the year 1896 - where she will help to reunite a family and discover a love that transcends the boundaries of time....

Midnight Louie, toughcat extraordinaire, and his human partner in crime-solving, petite red-headed' publicist Temple Barr, are once again in the thick of things as they try to discover just who is trying to wreck the annual Las Vegas Cat Show. When people start dying and the cats are placed in mort...

Irene Adler (the only woman ever to have outwitted Sherlock Holmes), her dashing barrister husband Godfrey Norton and their companion, the indomitable Miss Nell Huxleigh, have cone home to Paris, to rest and recuperate after their latest adventures. But rest is fleeting, for Irene is soon approache...

THEY SAILED TOGETHER...
MIRANDA HATHAWAY. A London lady trapped in a passionless marriage to a court cavalier, she was the golden-haired girl who had become a sword-flashing buccaneer. But from Spanish galleon to perfumed harem to the steamy shores of primitive Barbados, only one man truly posse...

Midnight Louie is aprowl again--and the game is definitely afoot when petite public relations freelancer Temple Barr finds herself at a striptease convention, up to her spike heels in muscle-bound males, siliconed females...and murder. As Temple tracks the killer, Midnight Louie pursues his own inv...

"In a delightful encore, Victorian diva e Irene Adler Norton engages in a battle of wits with Sherlock Holmes and a vicious killer seeking to hide a traitorous past...Irene lures Holmes, just concluding the "Naval Treaty" case, into the hunt. Douglas has penned a delightful romp in this Victorian a...

"Catnap features two of the most lovable characters you'd ever want to meet: public relations expert Temple Barr, a petite redhead with a high heel shoe fetish; and the irrepressible Midnight Louie. When these two kneel nose to nose over a dead body at the American Booksellers Association conventio...

From the pens of today's most prolific, popular, and feline-fancying mystery writers comes CAT CRIMES 2, a chilling collection of original stories that will leave cat- and mystery-lovers purring for more. Inside you'll encounter the Bogart drawl of P.I. pussycat Mr. Midnight; Oscar, the furry partn...

Minnesota reporter Alison Carver finds herself in the Land of Veil, where beautiful streams run with poisoned water and glorious fields mask hideous decay. Here women are treated with great homage-and great disdain; here children are loved-except for those who are cast away.
Alison's only guide ...

A startling discovery "causes Irene to pack up her entourage and repair to Monaco. Here she dons clever disguises, takes up with sailors, advises the Crown Prince, ...and takes a most amusing tea with Sarah Bernhardt. `Independence; Irene says, `does wonders for a woman".
--Marilyn Stasio, The New...

Miss Irene Adler, the beautiful American opera sin who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes, is here given an, unexpected talent: she is a superb detective, as Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker can attest. But in matters of the heart she encounters difficulty....

LOVESTRICK
Las Vegas. It's a land of smoldering days and neon nights, the clatter of chips and the whisper of chilled champagne. A town where dreams and desires collide in the glittering shadows of the Strip... and a where Fortune smiles on those lucky in love. Where else could a pistol packing ...

Little did Dr. Kevin Blake know, when he first encountered the amnesiac Jane Doe, that she was a "probe" sent from an alien world to gather intelligence about humankind. As he began to unlock her memories he discovered two extraordinary facts: that she could kill with her telekinetic powers; and th...

Silver-eyed is Irissa, last seeress of her Torloc race. She carries within her the child of her love, Kendric; together they have brought peace to Edanvant. When Irissa is struck down mysteriously, Kendric is convinced that it is the work of Geronfrey, the evil wizard who seeks Irissa's very essenc...

"Zyunsinth; she crooned, rocking slightly again. "Warm. Strong. Safe. Soft. Zyunsinth."
She'd been found on a lonely bluff, naked, emaciated, filthy but physically perfect -- TOO perfect. And amnesiac. The policemen who found her had not lived to file a report.
Now "Jane Doe" challenges the s...

In the silvered moonlight Monte Carlo shimmered like a thousand precious gems, and Chrystal Remy stood alone, the glittering essence of the resort's timeless magic. Having bid for and won the services of Damon Dance to appraise her aunt's villa full of antiques, she was stunned to discover that her...

Plight of the Sorceress
Irissa, last of the Torloc sorceresses, had been betrayed by the rainbow gate that was supposed to lead her to the haven world of her vanished people. The hand of Kendric, companion and Swordsman of Rule, had been torn from her grasp. Then the gate had rejected her into t...

SHE'S AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD TEMPTRESS
blazing a trail through the drawing rooms, theaters, and gambling salons of eighteenth-century London, determined to destroy her father's name.
SHE THINKS HERSELF QUITE WICKED
and is sure she has no heart--until she meets her match, a notorious and dashing ...

What do you do when you discover your husband isn't what he seemed to be?
Barbara Collins is a prosecuting attorney for the city of St Paul, Minnesota. At 33, she's been devoted to her work and has never had a serious relationsjip with a man.
Then Elliot Randolph, a dashing state senator, sw...

When a wife is the sole breadwinner she can find herself more in charge than she wants to be.
Now facing a hysterectomy and the possible loss of her job as editor of a major midwestern women's magazine, Bobbie Edwards rediscovers the passionate feelings her husband hasn't cared about in years. ...

At 35, a woman must control her own life.
Cheryl Snow, advertising coordinator for a fashionable Minneapolis store, is married to a rich, successful man who often manipulates her, sometimes insults her, and never acknowledges her intelligence.
When she meets artist Dan Englund, it's easy to s...

The Last of Magic
Irissa war the last of the sorcerous Torlocs, untutored in magic and abandoned upon this decaying world by her people. Kendric was one of the Sir of Swords, gifted with a legendary weapon to guard the Realms from harm. But now he was an outcast, and his death was sought without...

HER HEART WAS BORN ANEW...
Amberleigh, with her hair of flame, had come to the St. Clare estate in Ireland to escape her grey life as a governess. Here she would become a companion to the nobly born Elaine St. Clare, an old school friend, so fragile, so innocent and so unlike her stepmother Dev...

Wisteria Lane has nothing on the grande dames of mystery. A Bitch In the House for the fiction set, Deadly Housewives is a mystery anthology from fourteen of today's best–loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers. Critically acclaimed mystery writer Christine Matthews has gather...